Re: [whatwg] Alt text authoring Re: Conformance for Mail clients (and maybe other WYSIWYG editors)

2007-04-19 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:29:39 +0200, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I make HTML mail for (solicited) wide distribution, I make sure to include alt text. It's becomes especially important when clients are configured to automatically convert HTML mail to text (as indeed my

Re: [whatwg] Alt text authoring Re: Conformance for Mail clients

2007-04-19 Thread Thomas Broyer
2007/4/19, Matthew Paul Thomas: On Apr 19, 2007, at 10:47 PM, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: ... For the various reasons discussed in this thread, I cannot think of a real justification for making a mail client that breaks one of the basic accessibility features that people understand better

Re: [whatwg] Alt text authoring Re: Conformance for Mail clients

2007-04-19 Thread timeless
On 4/19/07, Matthew Paul Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it seems likely that the vast majority of non-spam e-mail messages are sent to individuals who are known by the sender to be fully-sighted. In that case putting up an interface for entering alt= text, *just in case* the recipient gets

Re: [whatwg] Alt text authoring Re: Conformance for Mail clients

2007-04-19 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:07:09 +0100, timeless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As such, encouraging people to include alt tags means the difference between me knowing that there's an image I care to look at and not. If e-mail client automatically inserted [image was here] in the text part of e-mail,